[gentoo-user] Re: gmail smtp overwrites the sender

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>]

On 11/03/12 16:49, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>
> On Mar 11, 2012 3:59 AM, "András Csányi" <sayusi.ando@gmail.com
> <mailto:sayusi.ando@gmail.com>> wrote:
>  >
>  > Dear All,
>  >
>  > I would like to ask some help! I would like to use gmail smtp to send
>  > my email from my domain which is sayusi.hu <http://sayusi.hu>, and
> the email address is
>  > sayusi.ando@sayusi.hu <mailto:sayusi.ando@sayusi.hu>. Unfortunately,
> gmail smtp always overwrite the
>  > sender email address. If I would like to subscribe for a mailing list
>  > with this email address and the email is sent from my local machine
>  > the respond always comes to my gmail address which used to
>  > authenticate.
>  >
>  > I have tried to set up my gmail account but doesn't matter what the
>  > setup is the sender always will be overwrite. Do you know any solution
>  > for this?
>  >
>  > Thanks in advance!
>  >
>  > András
>  >
>
> See my email address? It's actually sent from Gmail. BUT, I have my own
> hosted website (with its own SMTP server).
>
> Without your own SMTP server, Gmail will always send your email as
> "someone@gmail.com <mailto:someone@gmail.com> on behalf of
> someone@yourdomain.com <mailto:someone@yourdomain.com>".

That's also wrong.  I use "From:" addresses that don't have any SMTP 
associated with them.  GMail only touches the "Sender:" address, not the 
"From:" address.